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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.49
জাল খসাইতে তার অঙ্গ-স্পর্শ হইল ।
স্পর্শমাত্রে সেই ভূত হৃদয়ে পশিল ॥ ৪৯ ॥
jāla khasāite tāra aṅga-sparśa ha-ila
sparśa-mātre sei bhūta hṛdaye paśila
“As I tried to release the net, I touched the body, and as soon as I touched it, a ghost entered my heart.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The fisherman tried to release the net after his frightening discovery.
While doing so, he touched the body.
He said that a ghost entered his heart as soon as he touched it. This is the fisherman’s account of his experience.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you listen carefully to someone’s fear without immediately accepting their explanation?
Reread this verse today and distinguish the action the fisherman describes from his explanation of what followed.
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